Spring 2009 Exhibitions

This spring the Center for Curatorial Studies presents a series of 15 exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in the Center's graduate program. These exhibitions and projects are the culmination of the students' work towards the master of arts degree in curatorial studies.

Opening receptions
Series 1: Sunday, March 5, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Series 2: Sunday, April 19, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Drifting Histories

Julia Aranda, Rosa Barba, Andrea Geyer, and Korpys/Löffler
Curated by Anaïs Lellouche

The artworks in Drifting Histories address how geography and memory can offer alternative mappings of history.

Vital Archive │ Revisiting Group Material’s AIDS Timeline

Curated by Sabrina Locks

A selection and presentation of artwork, documentation, archival material, and new research around the historical exhibitions AIDS Timeline (1989) created by New York City-based artist collaborative Group Material (1979-1996).

Entr'acte

Cosima von Bonin, Tom Burr, Catherine Sullivan and Artur Żmijewski
Curated by Fionn Meade

Entr’acte is a group exhibition that looks at how four artists adopt and often invert elements of theater and dramaturgy in their work. By invoking the entr’acte as an agile form that exists between and often in productive tension with more elaborate and established formats, the exhibition looks at how such conventional themes as persona, set design, and acting the other are upended and fragmented in their work.

Lora Sana: I Was There and Not There

Carola Dertnig
Curated by Wendy Vogel

Lora Sana: I Was There and Not There presents the fictive figure of Lora Sana (the lost female Viennese Actionist) through images, text and performance. Based on Carola Dertnig’s interviews with marginalized female participants in original Actionist performances from the 1960s, Lora Sana blurs fact and fiction, subverting the role of the art-historical document in a performative rewriting of history.

How to do things with Words

Sharon Hayes, Jenny Holzer, Glenn Ligon, Adam Pendelton and Carey Young
Curated by Jess Wilcox

How to do things with Words explores the social and political consequences of language in contemporary society.

Changing Light Bulbs In Thin Air

Christian Andersson, Tauba Auerbach, Brian Clifton, Zachary Kitnick, Runo Lagomarsino, Adam Putnam, Matthew Sheridan Smith, Mungo Thomson, Garth Weiser
Curated by Summer Guthery

Changing Light Bulbs In Thin Air brings together a constellation of work by nine artists. Using the book House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski to provide a framework for the exhibition, two directions explored are architectural representations of the mind and the deconstruction and reconstruction of text. House of Leaves is a winding tangent of a novel with multiple narrators intertwining and contradicting themselves while describing a journey into a paradoxical house in which the inner dimensions are larger than the outer. The book gains an ergodic dimension, meaning that the graphic design and layout of the text mirrors the narrative, i.e. when a character is running down a hallway there are fewer words on a page causing the reader to flip faster. Some of the works relate through their textual sources, optical and spatial illusion, recursive imagery, and graphic experimentation.

fixation

Christof Migone
Curated by Mireille Bourgeois

Toronto-based video, audio, radio and text-based artist Christof Migone revisits past works in a new context at the Bard Art Gallery.

About the Object

Amy Patton
Curated by Christina Linden

An encounter last spring with an ambiguously labeled artifact at the Metropolitan Museum of Art served as a point of departure for this commission. Amy Patton presents new video work in an installation that examines the conditions of spectatorship and production within the exhibition space.

Noise Pollution

Marisa Olson
Curated by Gene McHugh

In “Noise Pollution,” Brooklyn-based artist Marisa Olson addresses the twin concerns of increased informational “noise” and the largely hidden costs of technology on the natural environment.

the everyday

Leslie Hewitt
Curated by Kate Menconeri

the everyday, a selection of new works by Leslie Hewitt highlights the artist’s interest in fluid notions of time, memory, and meaning, and the futility of documenting or trying hold life still. Balancing formal play with perspective, optics, and materiality, Hewitt skirts between the “illusionary potential of photographic space and the physicality and weight of the sculptural object”.

Dealing in Futures

An artist residency with Melanie Gilligan and a conference.
Curated by Zeynep Oz

Gilligan will research and produce a project that focuses on caricature as a form of political action, while a conference, Dealing with Futures, which is coorganized by Bard's Science, Technology, and Society Program, will look at how information infrastructures are used to make political policies.

COLUMN:

Including works by Erick Beltrán, Bernd Krauss, Jens Haaning, Interboro, Sydney Schrader & Joseph Verrill, and Dexter Sinister.
Curated by Marion Ritter

A series of commissions created specifically for the Poughkeepsie Journal, a daily local newspaper in Dutchess County, New York. The works will appear in the paper between April 10 and May 24.

PILOT

Curated by Bartholomew Ryan

A three part radio series broadcast live from WXBC Bard Radio, that considers 21st century strategies for the manifesto with interviews, conversations, commissioned works, readings, and debates with artists, academics, and curators. Participants include Janet Lyon, Alejandro Cesarco, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, and many others.

Gets Under the Skin

Including works by Bernd Behr, Johanna Billing, Michael Blum, Josef Dabernig, Domènec, Miklós Erhardt, Terence Gower, Pierre Huyghe, Lars Laumann, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Caitlin Masley, Ursula Mayer, Anna Molska, Sadie Murdoch, Pia Rönicke, Anri Sala, Caspar Stracke, and Judi Werthein at the Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York City, April 23, April 30 and May 7) and Preston Theater (Bard College). Complete with live conversations, this series of screening programs presents a wide array of contemporary artistic responses to the concepts and products of modernist architecture.
Curated by Hajnalka Somogyi.

SESSIONS: Con Verse Sensations

Curated by Katerina Llanes

Envisioning art as play, SESSIONS: Con Verse Sensations will be released as a print-it-yourself book as the first installment of SESSIONS, a feminist collaborative art project that re-imagines the act of conversation as a politic for self-directed learning.

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